Anthony DeSerio created this signature cocktail for our chocolate-inspired Heart to Heart Champagne Dinner Dance, happening on Thursday, February 11, at 6 p.m. Get tickets and information here—and Anthony will mix one up for you in person! UPDATE: The event is officially sold out, but follow the link if you’d like to get on the […]
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Coq au Vin Becomes Fabulous Choc au Vin…Yup, Chocolate!
In our chicken and wine recipe, deep dark chocolate is what we call a “stealth” ingredient, a little something added toward the end of making a stew that secretly gives a dish oomph, in this case an earthy, nutty and rich flavor you can’t identify but makes you fall in love with your meal.
Great Wines to Drink with Chocolate
Port and dry red wines can match perfectly with chocolate, we discovered, and we’d like to share these terrific wines with you. To test Senior Contributor Mark Raymond’s recommendations, we bit into beautiful pieces of chocolate, then sipped. Superb! Also great wines for drinking sitting by the fire with friends. Tell your wine store the […]
A Taste Test of 8 U.S. Chocolate Bars Made From Scratch
What an assignment Pete Wells had. The New York Times food critic decided to taste 14 bean-to-bar chocolate products made in the U.S. By bean-to-bar we mean the company claims to have sourced its own cacao beans to make the bars from scratch, as opposed to buying the already made cacao from a second party. […]
VIDEO: Jacques Torres Teaches You to Make His Chocolate Chip Cookies
Mr. Chocolate, pastry chef Jacques Torres, has created a packaged mix so you can effortlessly make his chocolate chip cookies at home. All you need to bring to the arrangement are two eggs, melted butter and a dash of real vanilla; the rest is in his kit, including well-sourced giant chocolate chips. As this short […]
Love Good & Rare Chocolate Bars? Don’t Miss These!
As you might guess, we’re as proud as we can be of our Conn. chocolate-makers, who rank up there, in our opinion, with the best in the East. We also wanted to venture out beyond our region to discover a bar or two that are unknown here but worth finding. That brought us to the […]
